The Impact Gap:
Enterprise Innovation in 2026
A data-led benchmark of how enterprise organizations are building innovation capabilities, and the structural gap between what they invest and what they can prove.
A structured read of the 2026 innovation landscape.
Built from Qmarkets' Innovation Maturity Assessment — a 25-question diagnostic across four capability areas, scored against the wider innovation landscape and mapped to three maturity tiers.
Innovation leaders are failing at execution.
When all 25 diagnostic questions are ranked by average score, the result divides cleanly along a single axis. Every question about culture and ambition scores higher than every question about execution and infrastructure. Intent isn't the problem — it's the operating system underneath.
Culture & ambition
Execution & infrastructure
of executive-sponsored innovation programs still cannot measure their own impact.
See where your organization sits on the curve.
Download your free copy of the report to see where enterprise innovation stands in 2026, and the patterns separating organizations that close the impact gap from those that don't.
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Three structural findings
The splits and deficits that define where enterprise innovation breaks down.
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Three tiers, five capability profiles
Diagnose where your organization sits — and what defines each profile.
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A path forward
Three practical shifts that close the impact gap.